"It's offensive to Hispanics, it's offensive to Mexicans," said Patti Solis Doyle, the panelist, who was once an aide to Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Jeffrey Lord, a Trump supporter, was also on the panel. He replied, "I've never heard that compared to the N-word!"

The entire group went silent.

Trump's "bad hombres" comment follows a history of inflammatory rhetoric toward Mexico, including when he opened his presidential campaign last year by saying the country was sending "rapists" and "murderers" across the southern US border.

The internet took notice:

Lord apparently tried to use the "N-word" rebuttal as a way to show Trump's "bad hombres" comment to be minor in comparison, but it fell flat on a number of levels — not the least of which being that Trump, throughout his campaign, has employed dog-whistle rhetoric during his rallies.

Much of that rhetoric has targeted women and people of color, among others.